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Industry group National Tank Truck Carriers said nearly 20% to $25% of tank trucks aren’t being used right now as there are not enough qualified drivers available. The year before the pandemic struck, that number was only at 10%. The problem reportedly became magnified last year when Americans weren’t driving due to the coronavirus pandemic … Read more

via americanmind: In France this week, 20 retired military generals, 80 officers, and 1,000 lower-ranking soldiers signed an open letter expressing concern over “mortal dangers” they say face the Republic. President Macron’s government has instructed the army chief of staff to discipline the signatories for inciting insurrection. The letter bears close attention on several grounds. Although … Read more

Following an eruption of severe weather in the Plains Tuesday and Wednesday, an expansive area of the southern United States will be at risk for potentially damaging thunderstorms Thursday. Severe storms plodded across the Plains Tuesday night, producing at least one radar-confirmed tornado and large hail. The National Weather Service office at Norman, Oklahoma, reported at … Read more

For the millions of Americans who found something better to do tonight than listen to Joe Biden outline his socialist vision for our country, I can summarize his speech in three words for you: boring, but radical. — Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) April 29, 2021 Biden’s speech was boring but radical. pic.twitter.com/kYajek7Yyd — Senator Ted … Read more

This is a tough game. Even the pros get slayed. This fund manager took his own life earlier this week. From $20B down to $1B. He was a hardcore value investor in a world that currently favors growth stocks (and rotating back into value). Here’s a piece on his fund from MS. https://www.morningstar.com/…/behind-the-rise-and-fall… What I … Read more

In the past, the solution to this paradox was compulsion. The state took custody of the “gravely disabled” and treated them in long-term residential institutions. However, with the exposure of civil rights abuses and the release of Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” the United States gradually dismantled its mental health … Read more

On Wednesday night, President Joe Biden told a Congress that “white supremacy is terrorism,” after claiming that US intelligence considers it “the most lethal terrorist threat to our homeland today.” Hours earlier, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) set the stage for the new narrative by telling MSNBC’s Nicol Wallace that “The predominant … Read more

We have identified an unusual $VIX split that expires on May 19, 2021 with a strike price of $32.50. 15,000 CALL contracts with a price of $0.47 (Mid-Market) were purchased at a $712,500 premium. — Quant Data (@QuantData) April 28, 2021 $Vix pic.twitter.com/LCIMkcMaMr — Álvaro Oviedo (@alvoviedo) April 29, 2021 @yardeni updated it here on … Read more

President Joe Biden is set to unveil a sweeping new “families” proposal during his joint session address Wednesday night, the third such landmark spending proposal of his first 100 days in office. The “American Families Plan,” senior administration officials say, will cost an estimated $1.8 trillion and comes on the heels of the not-yet-introduced-to-Congress “American … Read more

Joint Session Address ratings: TRUMP 2017— 48MTRUMP 2018— 46MTRUMP 2019— 46.8MTRUMP 2020— 37.2MBIDEN 2021— 11.6M — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) April 29, 2021 https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1387834659409698819 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/biden-joint-session-congress-ratings-11-million-viewers-compared-trumps-48-million-viewers-joe-totally-81-million-votes/ CBS’s “85% Biden Speech Approval” Poll Quizzed Just 169 Republicans Out Of 1,000 Viewers. And that my friends is how the Democrat media rigs its polls. Its nothing more than a … Read more

Sex Pistols frontman Johnny Rotten tore into the Democratic Party and said the “collapse” of America is happening because of Joe Biden’s “nonsense.” “You have a Democrat party that doesn’t respect anything but the latest woke fashion trend and that’s to the destruction of America,” Rotten told the UK Times in a recent interview. Born … Read more

A glance at the title of New York Times bestselling author Matt Palumbo’s new book “Dumb and Dumber: How Cuomo and de Blasio Ruined New York” may have readers wondering, who’s “Dumb” and who’s “Dumber?” Palumbo says that between the two men he’s written about, he hasn’t quite made up his mind.“That is the million … Read more

Bob Kudla interviewed by Sean on SGTreport This is good one, Bob Kudla returns to talk silver, inflation, the guide to toppling tyrants and more, thanks for tuning in friends. FULL SHOW NOTES AND LINKS HERE Please support SGT Report! Sign up HERE: https://sgtreport.tv/